Entertainment

LANL’s Charlie McMillan Plays Dead in Arsenic and Old Lace

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LALT News:

Arsenic and Old Lace returns to the Los Alamos Little Theatre stage 69 years after its 1944 Los Alamos debut as the opening production of LALT’s 70th season.

In the opening production of Arsenic, the dead body was played by none other than J. Robert Oppenheimer, a role reprised Sept. 14 by current Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Charlie McMillan.

McMillan was deemed a standout in his realistic portrayal of a dead man.

Aresenic and Old Lace continues at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 27 and 28 at the Los Alamos Little Theatre, 1670 Nector St. Tickets are available at CB FOX or one half hour before Read More

Choose Ending for ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’

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Warren Houghteling as John Jasper and Christina Martos as Rosa Bud in ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood.’ Photo by Patrick M. Kelly
 
Durdles, Deputy, and Chairman singing ‘Off to the Races!’ (Patrick Webb, Nora Cullinan, John Cullinan in ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood.’) Photo by Patrick M. Kelly
 
LALO News:

Audiences for the Los Alamos Light Opera production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood have a most important role: they get to vote on how the show will end!

Loosely based on an unfinished mystery by Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, a musical Read More

Zombie Walk Brings Living Dead to Pojoaque

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Zombies take to the streets at last year’s Pojoaque Zombie Walk. Courtesy photo

Staff Report:

The living dead will invade Pojoaque for the Third Annual Pojoaque Zombie Walk and the first ever Pojoaque Zombie Prom. It’s free to participate and or to come and watch. The scary doings will take place Saturday Oct. 26.

The walk is a family friendly event with candy for the kids and multiple costume awards for legal aged adults and minors alike. 

The Prom is being hosted by QB’s Bar and Grill after 9 p.m. and will be limited to adults of legal drinking age.

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Crowd Turns Out for Opera on the Rocks

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Park Superintendent Jason Lott introduces Opera on the Rocks this evening in Bandelier. Bandelier National Monument and the Los Alamos Guild of the Santa Fe Opera presented Amahl and the Night Visitors by Giancarlo Menotti, an Opera Alta production. Photo by Katy Korkos

Los Alamos High School Honor Choir Bel Canto takes the stage. Photo by Katy Korkos

Crowd gathers for Opera on the Rocks at Bandelier. Photo by Katy Korkos

Rotary Stars set up their cheese platters at this evening’s event. Photo by Katy Korkos



The weather cleared up just in time for people to get on the shuttles at the White 
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UNM-LA Composition Cinema Lecture Series Presents Tsotsi


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Tsotsi (Presley Chweneyagae), cares for a baby accidentally taken in a car jacking. Courtesy/Tsotsi Pictures


UNM-LA News:


The University of New Mexico-Los Alamos (UNM-LA) will feature Tsotsi, Sept. 28, as the second installment in the Composition Cinema I: A Film and Lecture Series, which will run through Nov. 14.


The host for Tsotsi will be UNM-LA Adjunct Faculty member, Zandree Stidham, and the discussion will center around her course theme “Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back.”


Tsotsi presents six days in the life of a young gang leader in Johannesburg, South Africa as he cares for a baby Read More 
Beer Coop Hosts Beer and Movie Night


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 Beer and whiskey writer Michael Jackson


LABC News:


Join the Los Alamos Beer Coop at 6:45 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26 for “a Beer and a Movie” featuring Beer Hunter: The Movie. (https:////www.beerhuntermovie.com/)


The movie begins at 7:15 p.m. and the event is a fundraiser for the Los Alamos Beer Coop.


Beer Hunter is a documentary film about beloved and influential beer and whiskey journalist Michael Jackson.


Tickets are $10 in advance or $15 the day of show. Tickets are on sale now at the Reel Deal Theater.
 Cans of beer sell for $5. Beer is provided by Santa Fe Brewing Company. Beers include
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Sixty-Nine Years Later ‘Arsenic and Old Lace’ Back on LALT Stage With LANL Director Playing the Corpse


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Martha (Jeanne Adkins) left, Teddy (Larry Gibbons) and Abby (Jody Shepard) hatch a scheme. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com


 


Mortimer (Don Monteith) stuggles as Jonathon (Pete Sanford) left, and Dr. Einstein (Brad Lounsbury) share a drink. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com


 The cast takes a bow from left, Elaine (Crystal Miller), Abby (Jody Shepard), Martha (Jeanne Adkins), Mortimer (Don Monteith) and LANL Director Charlie McMillan who plays the corpse. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com 


Review by BONNIE J. GORDON


Los Alamos Daily Post


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Calling for Actors: Nana’s Naughty Knickers


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LALT News:


Los Alamos Little Theatre Auditions for “Nana’s Naughty Knickers” by Katherine DiSavino will be held 5-7 p.m. today, Sept. 16 at Los Alamos Little Theatre, 1670 Nectar St. 


Performance dates are Dec. 31, 2013/Jan. 3, 4, 5, 10 and 11, 2014. 


Are you ready to laugh and have fun as you entertain our audiences? Join us for this humorous production. We know you will have a great time working on it.


The Characters for this play are as follows:


    

  • SYLVIA CHARLES – In her early 80s, living like she’s in her early 20s. The mastermind behind Saucy Slips, Etc., and the proud
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Surprise LANL Guest to Make Cameo Appearance in ‘Arsenic and Old Lace’


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LANL News:


Surprise LANL Guest to Make Cameo Appearance in ‘Arsenic and Old Lace’


    

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An as-yet-undisclosed Los Alamos National Laboratory official will “revive” the 69-year-old tradition of playing a corpse on stage this weekend in the Los Alamos Little Theater’s production of “Arsenic and Old Lace.”


The Laboratory’s first director, Robert Oppenheimer, played the corpse in the Little Theater’s production of the same play in 1944. Other scientists filled in on occasion.


The appearances are scheduled for this Friday (the Read More 
Free Music & Art for Teens and Young Adults Friday


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CO+OP News:


Co+opRocks!, held on the north side of Ashley Pond 7-10 p.m. Friday, Sept. 13, is a music and art based event for teens. 


The evening kicks off with improv by the High School Theater Department, followed by local musicians including Sonji, Ryan Van Cleave, Matt Tapia, Nathan Lindsey, Michelangelo Lobato, Kile Uhlenbrock and Cody Ulibarri.


Recycled art projects and a historical hands-on loom are free art activities available during Co+opRocks! The art activities are provided by Fuller Lodge Art Center, the Historical Society and the Los Alamos Co+op Market.


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